Workday Finance Solution Architect/Data Specialist

emagine is a professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. They focus on delivering tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

• Extensive experience designing and delivering solutions across the Workday platform, including Workday Financial Management, Workday Prism Analytics, Accounting Center, Reporting, and Integrations.
• Strong understanding of Workday security architecture, controls, and best practices.
• Experience in London Markets.
• Proven experience delivering at least one end-to-end Workday implementation in relevant functional areas.
• Experience designing data and analytics solutions using Workday Prism Analytics.
• Ability to influence solution design and challenge implementation partners.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of solution architecture principles, design patterns, and integration best practices.
• Ability to create effective and concise architecture documentation supporting teams and stakeholders.

Desirable Technical Experience:

• Experience building cloud-native integration solutions using Microsoft Azure, including Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, Azure Key Vault.
• Experience integrating legacy finance systems with the Workday platform.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices using Azure DevOps or similar tools.
• Exposure to enterprise integration frameworks and modern API-led architectures.
• Understanding of data modelling, reporting, and finance analytics environments.

Qualifications & Professional Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Workday certifications or accreditations (e.g., Workday Pro) are highly desirable.
• Experience in diverse technology environments and enterprise-scale transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of business process improvement and process re-engineering methodologies.

• Collaborate within a cross-functional team delivering finance transformation initiatives across the Workday platform.
• Define, govern, and evolve solution architecture aligned with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps.
• Provide architectural leadership across Workday Financial Management, Prism Analytics, Accounting Center, Reporting, and Integrations.
• Challenge and influence Workday, Systems Integrators, and stakeholders to ensure optimal solution design decisions.
• Maintain a holistic view of the Workday ecosystem, identifying architectural gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Oversee technical architecture implementation ensuring adherence to standards and best practices.
• Work closely with engineering and development teams to establish delivery standards, technical processes, and quality outcomes.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts including solution blueprints, integration patterns, relationship diagrams, and technical designs.
• Ensure solutions meet business requirements via collaboration with finance, technology, and transformation stakeholders.
• Drive the re-use of common components, integration patterns, and architectural assets where possible.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams and Systems Integration partners.
• Support decision-making across the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and optimisation.

emagine is an equal opportunity employer and employment practices are based strictly on merit. They give equal opportunity regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion, or ethnic origin.